Analytically there are, of course, two Jacobi series branching off the Maclaurin series, but they are geometrically and physically identical, and involve only an interchange of a and b.

During the race on the Hudson, Vanderbilt in his excitement seized the wheel from the pilot and mismaneuvered his vessel, while Law, out of fuel, hurled furniture and costly fittings into the furnaces and so sailed on to win.

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I mention all this about Teddy so as to suggest what I sensed to be the really roilsome nature of the struggle he was caught in at this moment, this day when I had walked with him to my office.